Coordinated changing of email settings on wireless electronic devices and wireless networks
AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorsANDREW BOCKING, Anthony Burns, David Yach, Phil Nguyen, Piotr Tysowski
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for changing settable email parameters in a system supporting email using a wireless device, the system including a wireless electronic device and a wireless network. Provided is a way of changing email settings on the wireless device, and storing those changes on both the device and, as needed or desired, on the wireless network. The wireless network and wireless device are adapted to wirelessly communicate with each other.
Claims27
A method of changing e-mail settings on a wireless handheld device comprising:
- detecting an email setting displayable on the wireless handheld device;
- saving the detected email setting in the wireless handheld device, such that the detected email setting is retrievable at a later time;
- sending, using a wireless output communications port of the wireless handheld device, the detected email setting in a manner receivable by a wireless server and uniquely associable with the sending wireless handheld device;
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- using, as needed by a message application of the wireless handheld device, the detected email setting.
A mobile wireless handheld device comprising:
- wireless input and output ports;
- a memory;
- a display;
- at least one input device configured to be usable by a user of the wireless handheld device;
- software comprising at least a message application, retrievably stored in the memory;
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- a processor operatively coupled to the wireless input and output ports, the memory, the display, the at least one input device, and structured to retrieve and run the software, where the software is further configured to run on the processor, and further where the software and the processor are configured to be able to retrieve and save a plurality of email settings, the email settings further saved in a manner usable by the message application, to enable display of changeable email settings and detection of changes to the email settings by the at least one input device, to save detected changes to email settings in a manner usable by the software, and to send, through the output port, wireless communications configured to be receivable by a wireless server where the detected changes to the email settings are uniquely associable with the wireless handheld device.
A method of changing e-mail settings on a wireless network comprising:
- providing storage for email settings on the wireless network, the storage enabled for retrievably storing email settings associated with a specific wireless device;
- receiving, on the wireless network, a communication comprised of at least one email setting associable with the specific wireless device, where the received at least one email setting has the property of being changeable by an input device on the specific wireless device;
- saving, in the storage, the received at least one email setting in a manner associated with the specific wireless device;
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- retrieving, at a time later than the saving, the saved at least one email setting and enabling for retrieval any other information in the storage associated with the specific wireless device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.